How Many Kisses Good Night

Questions in rhyme to ask a child at bedtime. For example: "How many eyes? How many noses? How many fingers? How many toeses?"

PreSchool-K This bedtime/concept book is an unsatisfying example of both types of book. The text has been resurrected from 1949, and it shows. There is no need to expose children to such forced rhyme as, ``How many noses? /How many toeses?'' The illustrations show a contemporary young woman clad in baggy sweater and sweat pants, and the preschooler, allegedly the woman's young daughter, in various rooms of a house that reflects the era from which the text dates. It may be possible that the pair dashed back to a quaint 1940s farmhouse after their aerobics class, but they just don't appear to be at home in their surroundings. Otherwise, the Norman Rockwell-type illustrations are filled with eye-catching detail. A far better bedtime/concept book is Molly Bang's Ten, Nine, Eight (Greenwillow, 1983). Jennifer Smith, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights
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